Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was one of many in Czarist and early Bolshevik Russia...
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Every year the Oscars include some Minnesotans, which is always a subject of interest...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being pursued by two women may sound like a bachelor’s dream, but for Yitzhak Goldah, a...
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Un mir zaynen ale brider, oy, oy ale brider / Un mit zingen freylekhe lider, oy oy...
Jazz clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen tipped me off about this album last November, when we met in Decorah, Iowa. My...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Little is needed to shatter the veneer of ethnic coexistence, as tragically illustrated in Buczacz, once...
Yale University Press has published another volume in its series documenting the work of renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Parties: The...
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Paula Vogel’s play Indecent, opening Feb. 23 at the Guthrie, presents a special, explicitly...
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Paula Vogel, who has long been one of America’s premier playwrights, nonetheless has experienced...
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Collected Stories, opening Feb. 24 at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, has only two characters, but the...
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